Blotch

Definition: Blotch

Blotch

Noun

1. An irregularly shaped spot.

Verb

1. Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blotch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Blotch \Blotch\, noun. [Compare to Old English blacche in blacchepot blacking pot, akin to black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, adjective, or compare to Blot spot.]. (references)

Industry

Synonyms: Blotch

Blemish

Freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip, blubber lip; blain, maculation; scar, wem; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple; (protuberance).

Crosswords: Blotch

The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch (1915)

Music

• Blotch (reference)

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Albanian

puprri (acne, botch, pimple, push, pustule, whelk), pullë (check, chip, counter, slug, stamp), njollë (blemish, blot, blur, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, nebula, patch, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لطخة (blot, blurring, cloud, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, speckle, splash, spot, sully), ‏لطخ (bedaub, besmear, blot, blur, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, sully, taint, tarnish), ‏عيب (blemish, blot, deformity, demerit, disgrace, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, infirmity, shortcoming, stain, vice, want), ‏شائبة (blot, defect, imperfection, impurity, wrinkle), ‏بقعة (blot, macula, patch, smear, smudge, spatter, speck, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, terrain). (various references)

Bulgarian 

леке (bugger, smear, snot, soil, spot, stain), пъпка (bud, burgeon, papilla, papula, papule, pimple, spot, whelk), петно (attaint, blob, blot, dab, daub, defilement, flaw, fleck, mottle, note, offset, reflection, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, stain, stigma, sully, taint, tarnish). (various references)

Chinese 

污点 (Blot, smudge, splotch, stain). (various references)

Czech

skvrna (blob, blot, blur, carbuncle, fleck, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spatter, speck, splash, spot, stain, taint, tarnish), kaòka (blob, blot, smear, smudge, stain). (various references)

Danish

plet (blot, spot). (various references)

Dutch

blok (block, pulley, cube, pad). (various references)

Farsi 

کورک (Boil, Pimple), لکه (Blob, Blot, Blur, Dirt, Dot, Freckle, Gall, Glob, Pip, Smear, Smooch, Smudge, Smut, Splotch, Spot, Stain, Taint), خال (Dot, Freckle, Mole, Pip, Speck, Speckle, Spot, Stigma), جوش چرک دار (Pock), رنگ محو, دمل (Abscess, Boil, Wen), دارای رنگ غیرواضح . (various references)

Finnish

bakteeripilkku (bacterial blotch, brown blotch), vihreä home (green mildew, greenish mould, trichoderma blotch, trichoderma mildew, trichoderma spot), Trichoderma-home (green mildew, greenish mould, trichoderma blotch, trichoderma mildew, trichoderma spot), nokilaikku (Apple blotch disease, Apple sooty blotch, Citrus sooty blotch, sooty blotch of apple), mansikka-ankeroinen (fern blotch, fern eelworm, fern nematode, leaf-blotch eelworm, strawberry bud nematode, strawberry eelworm, strawberry nematode, summer dwarf bud nema), Cephalosporium spp. (cephalosporium brown blotch). (various references)

French

barbouiller (blacken, blot), tache (blot), surface de couleur unie, marbrure. (various references)

German

fleck (blot, spot, stain, fleck, place). (various references)

Greek 

κηλιδώνω (smear, spot, stain, sully), κοκκινίζω (flush), βούλα (bull, seal, spot), μεγάλη κηλίδα, μουτζούρα (smudge), λεκέσ (spot). (various references)

Hungarian

tintafolt (ink spot), pörsenés (pimple, rash), gennyes pattanás (pustule), folt (dab, flaw, smudge, speck, spot). (various references)

Indonesian

bisul (abscess, blaim, boil, carbuncle, gall, protuberance, pustule), jerawat (acne, pimple). (various references)

Italian

macchia (stain, macula, spot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

黶 (birthmark, nevus), 痣 (birthmark, nevus). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あざ (birthmark, nevus, section of village). (various references)

Manx

boayl jiarg (birthmark). (various references)

Pig Latin

otchblay.(various references)

Portuguese

superfície de cor uniforme, sujar (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blemish, daub, defile, dirt, dirty, dishallow, drabble, draggle, foul, grime, make it wrong, mess, muck, muddy, slubber, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully), pústula (blain, pimple, pock, pustule), mata-borrão (blotting paper), manchar (stain, soil), mancha (stain, spot), furúnculo (boil). (various references)

Romanian

patã de cernealã (blob, ink spot, ironmould). (various references)

Russian 

пятно (blot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umrljati mastilom (blot), mrlja od mastila, čir (canker, carbuncle, ulcer). (various references)

Spanish

mancha (blot, spot, fleck, macula, stain). (various references)

Swedish

blemma (pimple), fläcka ner (besmear), fläck (spot, blot, stain, blemish, blur, speck, taint). (various references)

Turkish

mürekkep lekesi (blot, blur, ink blot, inky spot), lekelenmek (bastardize, be dishonored, be spotted, be stained, become stained, blur, smudge, spot), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), leke (attaint, blemish, blob, blot, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), kara leke (black mark, blot, smutch), kabartı (bulging, exanthema, protuberance, puff, puffiness, pustule, raise, swelling, tumefaction, whelk), kızarıklık (chilblain, erythema, rush), ayıp (attaint, blot, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame). (various references)

Turkmen 

tegmil (spot, stain). (various references)

Ukrainian

покривати плямами (bestain, dapple, splotch), пляма (blot, blur, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, macula, maculation, slur, smear, smirch, splash, spot, stain, star, taint). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhọt sưng tấy. (various references)

Welsh

blotyn, ystremp (dash, mess, streak), ysmotyn (blob, blur, spot). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "blotch": blotched, blotches, blotchier, blotchiest, blotchily, blotching, blotchy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blotch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baloch, baluch, Belloch, Beloch, beotch, biotch, blach, blatch, blath, bletch, bloth, blu-tac, Bluth, Boltho, botcha, flotch. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: botch, cloth.

-2 letters: bloc, blot, bolt, both, clot, colt, holt, loch, loth.

-3 letters: bot, cob, col, cot, hob, hot, lob, lot, tho.

-4 letters: bo, ho, lo, oh, to.

+1 letter: blotchy.

+2 letters: beclothe, blotched, blotches, botchily.

+3 letters: backcloth, beclothed, beclothes, blotchier, blotchily, blotching, blowtorch, touchable.

+4 letters: backcloths, beclothing, bedclothes, bioethical, blackthorn, blotchiest, broadcloth, clothbound, tablecloth.

+5 letters: batholithic, bibliotheca, blackthorns, blowtorches, breechcloth, breechclout, broadcloths, holoblastic, tablecloths, untouchable.